Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imitation Game – Jack Copeland

OecherLab Kapuzinergraben 19 D, 52062 Aachen

At the turn of the millennium Time magazine listed Alan Turing among the twentieth century’s 100 greatest minds. His ideas helped to transport us from an era where ‘computer’ was the term for a human clerk who did the sums in the back office of an insurance company or science lab, into a world where …

Workshop: “Emergence, Causality, and Complexity”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizers: Erica Onnis, Ana María Guzmán, Alexander Schubert Abstract: According to many authors involved in the debate about emergence, ontological emergent phenomena can be characterized as partially dependent on a more fundamental base and causally novel in instantiating new causal properties able to make them autonomous. Moreover, emergence is often recognized as a relevant feature …

Cancelled: From IP and Cookies to IDFA/GAID. Towards a Historical Sociology of (Digital) Addressing – Ricky Wichum

Unfortunately, this lecture has been canceled due to health reasons. We will continue our lecture series on December 18. Thank you for your understanding. This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. To take part either online or in presence, please write a short email to events@test.khk.rwth-aachen.de.

ERS invites… Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis: Competition Law in the Digital Era: AI and other new challenges

RWTH Aachen University - Super C - Generali Saal 639 Templergraben 57, Aachen, Germany

Professor Stefan Böschen, Director of the KHK c:o/re, and the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) of RWTH Aachen University invite you to another lecture of the "ERS invites..." series, this time featuring Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis, Judge at the General Court of the European Union, to discuss how AI is reshaping the legal landscape from various perspectives. …

Beyond-nature / Beyond-life

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known as bioinspired materials and biorobotics have posited themselves as domains whose starting point is inspiration from nature, or more precisely, from various ‘natural’ or biological objects and processes found in the natural world. For example, the technology of CRISPR gene …

International Conference “Cultures of Research”

Forum M, Mayersche Buchkremerstraße 6, Aachen, Germany

The international conference “Cultures of Research” takes stock of four years of support of the fellow program of the International Center of Advanced Studies in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Technology. During these years, more than fifty international fellows have been at the KHK c:o/re to explore the transformation of research. Topics such …

After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections

RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, Aachen

If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that it gathers different disciplines that eventually go back to their original research field – the event “After Network” proposes a direct connection with the KHK c:o/re’s 2024 research theme. The interdisciplinary program, combining art and science, also contribute to put …

Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Science-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Institute of Science Tokyo) Do Machines/AI Dream of Electric Sheep? How do machines and AI perceive and recognize our world? Humans have a condition called synesthesia, where hearing sounds or seeing letters can evoke the imagination of colors. …